A Contagious Aversion to Overhead Lights

HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years

HPE is extending its AI-powered networking automation across its hybrid cloud portfolio. That news came from Rami Rahim, formerly CEO of Juniper Networks and now president and general manager of HPE's networking business, whom The Register met last week when he visited Australia. Rahim champions what HPE calls "self-driving networks" – AI-assisted monitoring and automated remediation, part of the broader field known as AIOps.

Three Mark Zuckerbergs, Three Surprisingly Different Men

San Francisco Is Still Pushing to Turn Offices Into Homes

Old cubicles in the 150 Hayes Street building in San Francisco that’s being converted into housing.

Why are mainland China’s tax officials suddenly so interested in my Hong Kong MPF?

For the past few months, this newspaper has extensively covered China’s ongoing clampdown on tax avoidance, especially its push to tax the income of super-rich families held in offshore trusts. We never expected to become targets of the campaign ourselves. But there have been signs in recent weeks that officials are starting to take an interest even in the incomes of South China Morning Post journalists, with several of us being contacted by the tax man.